My Halloween Weekend Plans

October 28, 2022 / animar64 / 1 Comment

I’m pretty excited- today is the last weekend before Halloween on Monday.

I have movies to watch, snacks to devour and stories to write. In addition I just got my new HP Chromebook and that makes me super happy because my laptop has not worked right since I jammed Windows 10 down it’s gullet a few years back and I’ve hated it since. It’s done the job, but it takes anywhere from five to twenty minutes just to load up so there is not turning it on and getting on line. It’s a process and I haven’t bought a new laptop because I HATE SHOPPING.

I know that Chromebooks aren’t the same as your trusty old Laptop, but all I do is blog on my laptop and when I travel I like watch movies so the Chromebook works for that. I checked the AUE on this model and she’s good to go for five years and then I’ll have to replace it because it won’t be getting updates anymore, but I don’t care. I have to do the same thing for my phone at some point so I’m good with that. Plus. I don’t store anything on my laptop that I care about so It don’t have to transfer anything.

So. I have a new toy to create with and I’ll be carving my pumpkin.

As per our tradition, at some point my dog Hamish Macbeth gets to our uncarved Pumpkin and tries to carry it off. He doesn’t care about them once they’re carved. I don’t know why. It makes sense to him. Anyhoo, his fang went into the pumpkin and even though I treated it with hairspray a little pumpkin rot started around the bite mark. It’s about the size of quarter so it’s not bad. I’m trying to find a way to work it into the carving it’s going to get.

THE PUMPKIN ASSASIN

Hamish Macbeth
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Halloween 2021

Here is the part I am really looking forward to- I’m going to raise the dead and unleash them on the world and as they rampage through towns and shopping malls, I’m going to stand on my porch in my Hello Kitty onesies and matching boots and sing Christmas songs because those are the only songs I’m brave enough to sing without an accompanist.

OK. OK. I’m just kidding.

I’m not going wear the Onesies and Boots and sing as I raise the dead from their mucky dusty graves.

Actually. I’m just going to raise the dead. But I’ll probably wear my Hello Kitty boots when I do it because they are comfy.

So. What does your Halloween weekend look like?

The Witch’s House

October 27, 2022 / animar64 / Leave a comment

Photographer Unknown

There was a gleam in her eye

there was shards of glass in her voice

and as they cut through me to the bone

I tried to scream

but all I could do

was stand there and laugh

in the Witch’s House

last Halloween.

I’m still here,

come see for yourself

I’ll be watching for you

with a gleam in my eye

and I’ll be waiting by the door to

welcome you

with shards of glass in my voice

that will cut you to the bone

because it’s Halloween.

Inspired by the RDP Prompt: GLEAM

Houses

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 / animar64 / 1 Comment

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts

Poem By: Joshua Sylvester

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts
Do haunt the houses and the graves about,
Of such whose life’s lamp went untimely out,
Delighting still in their forsaken hosts:
So, in the place where cruel Love doth shoot
The fatal shaft that slew my love’s delight,
I stalk, and walk, and wander day and night,
Even like a ghost with unperceived foot.
But those light ghosts are happier far than I,
For, at their pleasure, they can come and go
Unto the place that hides their treasure so,
And see the name with their fantastic eye:
Where I, alas, dare not approach the cruel
Proud moment that doth enclose my jewel.